Is Sex The Root of Everything? A Discussion with Helen Fisher, PhD: Part 1

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🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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“I’ve never met two people who are alike—and I’m an identical twin.” - Helen Fisher(click to tweet)Visit netsuite.com/tai to download your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits”Check out lightstream.com/tai to learn about your best loan ever.It’s no secret that humans are motivated by sex.But just how deep does this drive go? When we examine our behavioral similarities and differences with other groups: our ancestors, other modern-day societies, and animal species—we can start to distill the mechanics of what actually lies beneath our sex drive.That’s why on today’s episode of The Tai Lopez Show, we are joined by Helen Fisher to discuss the ultimate question: is sex everything? Helen Fisher, PhD has conducted extensive research and written six books on the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how your personality style shapes who you are and who you love. She is currently using her knowledge of brain chemistry to discuss the neuroscience of business leadership and innovation.You can read her latest book Anatomy of Love hereDon’t forget! You can also listen to The Tai Lopez Show on Spotify! Click “Follow” and let me know what you think!“We’ve traded security in for autonomy and adventure.” - Helen Fisher(click to tweet)Points to Keep In MindStudies show that 86% of Americans will marry by middle-age, we’re just doing it laterThe 4-year itch can be explained by how long it takes to raise a child past infancyHumans have a tremendous drive to pair-bond and be adulterousWe are motivated by the 4 M’s: money, mating, movement/freedom, mastery/statusOur cerebral cortex is where we do our thinkingApproximately 8,000 of the 9,000 species of birds form pair-bonds The Amish are highly agreeable people who are willing to conform to a groupThe brain is built for 5-9 choices; after that, you begin to not choose anyPerceiving is dopamine-related and judging is serotonin-related Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've never met two people who were alike, and I'm an identical twin.
0:07.9	Welcome to today's show. I've got a very special guest, Dr. Helen Fisher.
0:12.6	She's a TED All-Star, done five TED talks. She's that Chief Scientific Officer for Match.com,
0:20.0	PhD in Biology, Anthropology, Biological Anthropology. But more importantly to me,
0:28.2	fascinating person, because she has devoted her life in part to studying
0:34.5	why we've fallen in love, how sex matters, and maybe we're going to ask the question,
0:41.0	is sex the root of everything? They say, money is the root of all evil, but could it be sex?
0:47.2	But not just the root of all evil. Root of everything, our desire for money, our desire for status,
0:53.6	our desire for fame, our desire to be known and understood, our desire to not be cheated on.
1:00.0	At the end of the day, that's what I want to talk about. You've been to a year-on-country,
1:05.8	what, 118? Next? 108. 108. North Korea is off the list.
1:12.5	Off the list, off the list. A lot of others are too. Yeah, well.
1:17.8	It's a great world, but we're more similar than we're different everywhere.
1:22.3	Now, okay, I'm going to start with this. This is a great opening to this book, Anatomy of Love.
1:30.3	Always start with some humor. So you were in a back of a pickup truck in the Highlands in New Guinea,
1:38.1	with a man who had three wives. That's exactly right. Yeah. Well, so I asked him how many wives would
1:44.4	you like to have? And you thought he might say? Well, I was waiting. I thought there was this pause,
1:49.6	and I thought to myself, is he going to say five? Is he going to say 10? Is he going to say 25?
1:54.0	And he leaned towards me and he said, none. I always thought that. I'm like, I'm like,
2:00.1	would it actually be great to have multiple wives? Because a lot of people don't want to have one
2:06.4	wife. I saw today that marriage is at its all-time low in the United States. Even from just
2:14.4	the year 2000, just 19 years ago, it's dropped dramatically. So I really question that. You know,
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